Quick arrest in Barnegat drug death

Crackdown warning sent to dealers by Ocean County Prosecutor

11:03 AM,
Apr. 21, 2013

Written by

Carol Gorga Williams
| @APPCarol

The newly installed Ocean County Prosecutor wishes to send drug dealers a simple message: "If you provide drugs to the residents of Ocean County, we will find you and punish you."

And the initial salvo fired was the overnight arrest of an Atlantic County man in connection with a drug death Friday in Barnegat, said Al Della Fave, a spokesman for Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.

Investigators worked through the night to find the dealer they contend provided the heroin that led to the death of Steven M. Janson, 26, of Cedar Street in Stafford. ...